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Do you have a decoder set in the console (in the application area)?

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videowidget

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Hi, sorry did not realise you responded to my request - i assume you mean decoder in the TTN console for the device? If so I tried both - with and without

I have tried to use this one: https://github.com/SensationalSystems/tektelic-kona-decoder/blob/master/tektelic-kona-home-ttn-decoder.js

But my problem still remains as I get a pretty big ttn_payload to wrangle with on the Tago side.

Is there anything I can do to make sure I only receive “payload_fields” on the Tago side?

{“app_id”:“tektelic-home-pir-1”,“dev_id”:“kona-home-1”,“hardware_serial”:“647FDA00000010F0”,“port”:10,“counter”:340,“payload_raw”:“0100FF08040002”,“payload_fields”:{“activity”:null,“battery_voltage”:null,“bytes”:“AQD/CAQAAg==”,“external_input”:null,“humidity”:null,“reed_count”:2,“reed_state”:false,“temperature”:null},“metadata”:{“time”:“2019-02-12T22:19:56.226659896Z”,“frequency”:868.3,“modulation”:“LORA”,“data_rate”:“SF12BW125”,“coding_rate”:“4/5”,“gateways”:[{“gtw_id”:“multitech_home”,“gtw_trusted”:true,“timestamp”:3305545796,“time”:“2019-02-12T22:41:20Z”,“channel”:1,“rssi”:-48,“snr”:12.25,“rf_chain”:1,“latitude”:xxxx,“longitude”:-xxx,“location_source”:“registry”}]}}

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Big, but are you seeing individual fields? Because in my tests with Tago, among the variables I can see both metadata and payload fields (and I am happy with this, because it lets me work also on RSSI and SNR). It should not be an issue to have more than (currently) needed…

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OK given I have a such a big payload, how do I write a parser for Tago that get me the information in the ‘payload_fields’ “payload_fields” element of this big overall payload? I
am interested in this element: ,“payload_fields”:{“activity”:null,“battery_voltage”:null,“bytes”:“AQD/CAQAAg==”,“external_input”:null,“humidity”:null,“reed_count”:2,“reed_state”:false,“temperature”:null}

If I through the whole payload into your device emulator to test a parser I get a long list of error messages:
-Missing property “variable”.
-Property “port” is not allowed.
-Property “counter” is not allowed.
-Property “payload_fields” is not allowed.
-Property “metadata” is not allowed.
-Property keys must be doublequoted
-Value expected
-Property keys must be doublequoted
-Value expected
-Property keys must be doublequoted
-Value expected
-Property keys must be doublequoted
-Property keys must be doublequoted
-Property keys must be doublequoted
-Value expected
-Property keys must be doublequoted
-Property keys must be doublequoted
-Property keys must be doublequoted
-Property keys must be doublequoted
-Value expected
-Property keys must be doublequoted
-Property keys must be doublequoted
-Property keys must be doublequoted
-Property keys must be doublequoted
-Property keys must be doublequoted
-Property keys must be doublequoted
-Property keys must be doublequoted
-Value expected
-Property keys must be doublequoted
-Property keys must be doublequoted
-Value expected
-Property keys must be doublequoted
-Value expected
-Property keys must be doublequoted
-Value expected
-Property keys must be doublequoted
-Property keys must be doublequoted
-Value expected
-Property keys must be doublequoted
-Property keys must be doublequoted
-Property keys must be doublequoted
-Value expected
-Property keys must be doublequoted
-Property keys must be doublequoted
-Property keys must be doublequoted
-Property keys must be doublequoted
-Property keys must be doublequoted
-Value expected
-Property keys must be doublequoted
-Value expected
-Property keys must be doublequoted
-Value expected

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I am not from Tago, just a user. What I did is simply to add integration, add devices and buckets into Tago, create a dashboard, and there variables are directly shown.
However, your JSON has non standard double quotes.

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thanks for your support - I really thought you were working for Tago -:blush:-

how did you create buckets so that variables are simply there? I currently get only three variables into my buckets from the integration which are downlink_log, downlink_url, ttn_payload.

Do you create a special parser for Tago to analyse the ttn_payload variable?

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I did recently a test with Tago, but everything went so flawlessly that I cannot remember difficulties. I followed these instructions, using Custom TTN device because it is not a commercial node. I found Tago easier than Cayenne.
I stopped using it because suddenly I saturated the maximum input limit (in an unclear way, but I just stopped everything).

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newwidgetconfiguration

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Did you guys ever get down-links working with TTN?

I just tried it again today and still can’t seem to get it to work. Nothing shows up in my TTN console and nothing gets to my device – down-links work on my device when I use the HTTP integration and use curl from my desktop PC to send the data…so I know the code on my device is fine.

Everything else I’ve tried on Tago works perfectly, so it could be user error on my part.

This is what I’m trying to send:
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Downlinks used show up in my TTN console on fport 0(they don’t any longer for some reason) but the payload is empty every time, whether I use payload_fields or payload_raw.

It’s also very non-intuitive how to actually send downlinks. The “Was it Sent” tab is really ambiguous even after you read the information tab.

Do you enable “Was it Sent” because you want it to be sent or disable it because it was sent.

When you’re creating a new key and value pair, you’d click the button because intuitively that’s how you expect things to work but that will disable the downlink. I spent a TON of time trying to get downlinks to send my payload, then I just gave up :smirk:

Once it works it would be nice to specify with fport it comes in on as well.

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I had pretty much the same experience – spent a long time trying to get it to work with payload_fields and payload_raw with no success.

I also agree that sending downlinks with Tago is very unintuitive. I don’t understand why the feature is hidden away in the device configuration and why it’s structured as it is. To me, what 99% of people want to do with downlinks is send a simple message of some sort back to their device, in response to a timer or button click on the GUI or whatever. In my mind when you are creating the GUI and you add a button for example, you should be able to attach some sort of a callback function to the button that just queues whatever data you want to send back to the device, so that it’s sent on the next uplink.

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tago21-3

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As @ZaneL says, we have the same issue, we want a simple dashboard where we can add a botton to on/off or start stop a sensor, it is a very simple message but we want to be integrated on the visualized data.
any suggestion how to do this?

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tago-balloontracking

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Hello - I have been trying to perform a simple integration of a GlobalSat tracker into Tago (this is my first attempt to use Tago). I have been using the meshed handler and have followed the instructions in tago.elevio.help/en/articles/102 - I think :slightly_smiling_face:.

I have been able to integrate via the meshed handler into AllThingsTalk without a hitch, but nothing comes through from the device into the Tago environment.

Is anyone connecting to Tago via meshed handler at this time? Any suggestions appreciated, thanks.

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For anyone that may be interested, the issue appears to have been a routing problem between meshed router and Tago. This is now resolved - many thanks to the teams at Meshed and Tago for resolving this issue.

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tago
Check out the recent changes in the Device configuration tabs. Now you will find the Emulator inside each device, along with some format examples ready to be used. Developers can emulate data in two formats: JSON or RAW payloads. When using the new Live Inspector to monitor data traffic, users can navigate in any tabs without resetting the historical data of the main display. The Live Inspector is a great feature for debugging as it shows each package that arrives; it is also helpful for when you are creating parser scripts for the payload.

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